Melody Quotes - Page 4

• I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.

  Teena Marie

  Beautiful, Running, Dream

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• In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it.

  Tony Iommi

  Past, Way, Causes

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• I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

  Michel Legrand

  Trying, Radio, Harmony

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• Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Music, Beautiful, Simple

  Krishna Dutta, Rabindranath Tagore (1991). “Purabi: A Miscellany in Memory of Rabindranath Tagore 1941-1991”

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  Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

  Melody Beattie

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.

  Paul Twitchell

  Sound, Flutes, Strange

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• The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Starting Over, Principles, Becoming

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.62, Harvard University Press

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• Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

  Kathy Acker

  Writing, Thinking, Jazz

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• I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.

  Conor Oberst

  Girl, Lying, Eye

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• There are choirs singing in your head. If you listen, you will hear the music. It is the song of angels. Pay no attention to the sounds of the world. They are just noises, and even when added up all together they have no value, make no sense. Strain to hear the song of angels. Listen to the melody within your soul.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Song, Angel, Soul

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jun 06, 2014

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• We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.

  Art Garfunkel

  Song, Appreciation, Real

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• Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Music, Order, Divergent

  Yehudi Menuhin (1972). “Theme and Variations”, New York : Stein and Day

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• In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.

  Andy Gibb

  Men, Years, Together

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• My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

  Paul Simon

  Guitar, Voice, Good Enough

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• I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.

  Tom Araya

  Thinking, Trying, Stills

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• We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.

  Johannes Brahms

  Handle, Overload

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• To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friends, Kindness, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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• There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.

  Nuno Bettencourt

  Song, Writing, Two

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• Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

  Melody Beattie

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Fullness Of Life

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• I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

  Gary Cherone

  Music, Song, Queens

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• When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something in my gut just has to rise up and sing and put something to that.

  Jason Mraz

  Hands, Breakthrough, Guts

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• It's important to keep your creative muscle strong and working. My most inspiring method though is just sitting down with an acoustic guitar and coming up with melodies. It's what I've been doing nice I was nine years old.

  Zella Day

  Strong, Nice, Guitar

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• If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.

  Steven Tyler

  Beach, Boys, Islands

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• I'm not a lawmaker, but I was thinking that if you have a really loud ring tone, maybe you should be stabbed in the ear?

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, Ears, Tone

  Twitter post from Aug 19, 2013

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• I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I'll pay closer attention to the lyrics.

  George Strait

  Song, Thinking, Pay

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